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Opposition Pulls Out of Egypt Vote

Coalition Plans Boycott of Parliamentary Elections in Potential Blow to Building of Stable Democracy

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Matt Bradley

Updated Feb. 26, 2013 5:24 p.m. ET

CAIRO—Egypt's main opposition group said it would boycott parliamentary elections set to begin in late April, sapping legitimacy from democracy-building efforts and potentially imperiling the country's struggling economy.

Leaders of the National Salvation Front, an alliance of non-Islamist political parties and former presidential candidates formed late last year, said they were pulling out because the Islamist-dominated government...